mismatch
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To explore this nutritional mismatch, researchers compared the essential amino acid composition of honeybee tissues with pollen collected from 99 UK flowering plant species representing 26 plant families.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 19, 2026
This may point to a mismatch where graduates aren’t building experience in the industries suited to their skills or desires.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 4, 2026
This term has also revealed the profound philosophical mismatch between the court and the public.
From Slate ● Jul. 29, 2026
As your editorial notes, current levels lock homeowners in place, creating a mismatch problem.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
That’s because the opening phrase, at the age often, is attached to my father—an obvious mismatch.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
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Since the public rolls don’t include voters’ unique identifiers, people at the lab also knew linking them to HSI’s data would produce mismatches — what the staffer called an “ungodly” number of false positives.
From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026
Semiconductor stocks have historically been cyclical, experiencing boom-and-bust phases from supply-demand mismatches.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 29, 2026
Asian countries are limited in how much U.S. energy they can process by infrastructure mismatches.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 25, 2026
“We were in the flow, the ball was moving and we got mismatches that we like,” Musselman said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 17, 2026
However, no changes have been made in this e-text for these mismatches.
From Adequate Preparation for the Teacher of Biological Sciences in Secondary Schools by James Daley McDonald
What follows — the drained reserves, the mismatched oil, the strained grid and the price we all pay — is the fallout.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 21, 2026
Accuracy for the mismatched items dropped to nearly zero in some cases.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 10, 2026
“When you see that map, it’s a little bit mismatched and our team re-created that,” Maras says.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2026
Bob Mac Leod had spent 29 years living with a secondary bathroom that he described as being in decent shape, despite its dated tile and mismatched floor and wall colors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 8, 2026
He danced on his front paws on the porch, his mismatched eyes smiling up at me, his tongue hanging out happy.
From "The Honest Truth" by Dan Gemeinhart
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Retro-themed decor is in, with trees jam-packed full of bold, mismatching decorations, as more people try to recreate a festive season from their childhood.
From BBC ● Dec. 20, 2025
Among them facsimiles of relevant ephemera are bound in mismatching formats: foldout drawings, transparencies, die-cuttings and pamphlets whose archival relevance you must flip through to ascertain.
From New York Times ● Jan. 16, 2024
"We find that user engagement increases when the national headquarters lead the production of content and the local accounts follow either by tweeting to a matching or mismatching audience, depending on timing in the operation."
From Science Daily ● Oct. 10, 2023
Flowers that bloom in early balmy weather run the risk of mismatching with their primary pollinators—such as hummingbirds or bees—which can follow non-climate-dependent cues such as day length.
From Scientific American ● Mar. 22, 2023
I mark the ground in squares of one rod and plant in every other crossing, mismatching to make the trees zigzag.
From The Apple by Various